Archive for April, 2008
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Here at TML we’re big fans of UML. We’ve been using the language since version 1.1 and have implemented UML standards in retail, banking, travel and ecommerce spaces.
UML is a standardized visual specification language for object modeling. UML is a general-purpose modeling language that includes a graphical notation used to create an abstract model of [...]
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Tags: banking, ecommerce, modelling, retail, software engineering, travel, UML
Use Case
At TML we understand the importance of goal-orientated technical documents. We find use cases fit perfectly with our ethos of producing specifications which realise business requirements. The trick is (as with all forms of system/business analysis) is to find the right level of detail for multiple stakeholders and audiences; use cases enable us to do [...]
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Tags: actor, Business Analysis, requirements, stakeholders, system engineering, UML, use case
Reengineering
Reengineering is the radical redesign of an organization’s processes, especially its business processes. Rather than organizing a firm into functional specialties (like production, accounting, marketing, etc.) and looking at the tasks that each function performs, we should, according to the reengineering theory, be looking at complete processes from materials acquisition, to production, to marketing and [...]
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Tags: business process, process, business process reengineering, retail, travel, manufacturing
Process modeling
The term process model is used in different contexts. For example, in Business process modeling the enterprise process model is often referred to as the business process model. Process models are core concepts in the discipline of Process Engineering.
Process models are processes of the same nature that are classified together into a model. Thus, a [...]
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Tags: business process, process model, Process modeling, system development
Stakeholder analysis
Stakeholder analysis is analysis that aims to identify the stakeholders that are affected by the results of a project simultaneously with the result’s success depending on the cooperation between the stakeholder and the project. It is important to identify all stakeholders for the purpose of identifying their success criteria and turning these into quality goals.
A [...]
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Tags: project, Stakeholder, Stakeholder analysis
Requirements Analysis
In software engineering, requirements analysis encompasses those tasks that go into determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users. Systematic requirements analysis is also known as requirements engineering. It is sometimes referred to loosely [...]
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Business Analysis
Business analysis helps an organization to improve how it conducts its functions and activities in order to reduce overall costs, provide more efficient use of resources, and better support customers. It introduces the notion of process orientation, of concentrating on and rethinking end-to-end activities that create value for customers, while removing unnecessary, non-value added work. [...]
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Tags: BA, Business Analysis, Business Analyst
